What's big fuss about?

June 17, 2009

Idon't understand the big fuss on the city's part over the Jim Dumire house on east U.S. Highway 12. It is a magnificent mansion that the city had moved many years ago, to make room for the city library. It was placed in a bad location at that time. Sure, over the past 20 years it has become increasingly run down, but it is too valuable to destroy. The Pavilion at Wylie Park is less valuable, it should have been replaced with a modern building instead of being restored. The real nuisances and eyesores are the deserted dilapidated buildings and abandoned trucks and machinery around the stately Dumire house. Get those cleaned up and then try to find a place for the antique mansion. John Richardson Aberdeen